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Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a feature on the largest aircraft in the US Air Force's inventory that has been in operation since 1969. The C-5 Galaxy is designed to transport heavy payloads ...
The huge C-5 Galaxy features a unique tricycle-type landing gear system consisting of a total of 28 wheels. As already explained, this fine piece of machinery is made of four main units fitted in ...
A USAF C-5 Galaxy airlifter has made a successful emergency landing in Spain. The top image was reportedly taken yesterday at Rota Air Base, Spain. Sent us by one of our Twitter followers (thank ...
The Air Force said Thursday it had ordered a “stand-down” of all 56 of its giant C-5 cargo planes to repair the nose landing gear. The order, given by the Air Mobility Command, means that ...
Air Mobility Command has grounded the C-5 Galaxy cargo planes operating at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware after a nose landing-gear unit malfunctioned for the second time in 60 days. The stand ...
A C-5M Super Galaxy strategic transport aircraft landed with its nose landing gear up at Travis Air Force Base ini California on Thursday evening, an Air Force spokesman told Task & Purpose.
The Air Force is investigating what caused the landing gear of an Air Force Reserve Command C-5M Super Galaxy to fail on Thursday. The failure caused the C-5 to land on its nose, skidding about ...
The C-5 Galaxy's unparalleled carrying capacity, international reach, and ongoing improvements make it indispensable for missions around the globe.
A C-5M Super Galaxy conducted a nose gear-up emergency landing at Travis Air Force Base in California Thursday night. In this photo, a C-5M taxis down the flight line before takeoff at Dover Air ...
CHICOPEE - Two tires from the landing gear of a giant C-5 Galaxy jet dropped from the plane and into a wooded area off Federal Street in Belchertown Thursday. The pilot and crew, from the 439th ...
A C-5M Super Galaxy is shown in this video landing without its nose gear at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland a few months ago, the first incident of its kind in years. The C-5 was on a routine ...
U.S. Air Force maintainers assigned to the 60th Air Mobility Wing work to lower the nose landing gear on a C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft at Travis Air Force Base, California, Feb. 1, 2019. (U.S. Air ...